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Anyone have a tale about showing first timers an amazing view through a scope?
The in-laws had a dark sky on their property north of Melbourne and loved looking up at night but had never seen a scope before.
Imagine what a 12” Lx200 looked like to them. Massive weird contraption.
My mother in law never, ever swears. Won’t even watch a movie with swearing, but when she came up to the eye piece and saw a globular cluster (pretty sure it was 47 Tucanae) she let out an involuntary “Oh F@#k”.
That was 20 years ago and we still talk about it and laugh.
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I do a lot of outreach these days at Mt Stromlo as well as schools and community events and we get a lot of versions of that exclamation each time we set up. I have a clicker counter for the number of viewers that have looked though my scopes, the clicker counts up to 9999 so I expect it will reach back to 0000 later this year .....